Big karst chambers : examples, genesis, stability / Eric Gilli.
Gilli, Éric, author.
2021
GB601 .G55 2021
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Title Big karst chambers : examples, genesis, stability / Eric Gilli.
Author Gilli, Éric, author.
ISBN 9783030587321 (electronic bk.)
3030587320 (electronic bk.)
3030587312
9783030587314
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58732-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-58732-1 doi
Call Number GB601 .G55 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.447
Summary This book documents and describes 32 natural caves from France and around the globe that have a width larger than 50 m, including data on the largest underground chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber. Artificial caves are not able to be constructed at these volumes and most of these naturally forming chambers had never been surveyed before with little geological data available. Methodologies for studying these large volume Karst chambers are described and for each site, a survey, a geomorphological sketch, a description and photographic images are provided. The process of the mechanical transportation by underground running water, of an insoluble but erodible rock located below thick limestone roofs via digging, scouring and racking are explained through these example to clarify the genesis of the largest volumes in the world. The purpose of this study was to estimate whether these natural contexts could be transposed to the digging of artificial caverns to accommodate underground nuclear power plants. Indeed, the comparison of the effects of the Lucens nuclear accident with those of Chernobyl and Fukushima shows the whole interest of an underground solution. These examples of natural chambers indisputably show that this is possible.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2021).
Series Advances in karst science.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030587314
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Comparative Analysis and Synthesis
Application to the Digging of Artificial Chambers
Study of Sarawak Chamber
The future of Underground Plants.

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